Escaping poverty : the origins of modern economic growth /

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and th...

• Main Author: Vries, Peer
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Goettingen : V & R Unipres ; Vienna University Press, c2013
• Subjects: CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO; REINO UNIDO; CHINA; PROGRESO ECONOMICO
• Online Access: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=626977; Información sobre el autor